PDF Download • “Order of Music” (Funerals)
I have made some changes to my “musical list” for funerals.
Jesus said to them: “I have come into this world so that a sentence may fall upon it, that those who are blind should see, and those who see should become blind. If you were blind, you would not be guilty. It is because you protest, ‘We can see clearly,’ that you cannot be rid of your guilt.”
A theorist, organist, and conductor, Jeff Ostrowski holds his B.M. in Music Theory from the University of Kansas (2004). He completed studies in Education and Musicology at the graduate level. Having worked as a church musician in Los Angeles for ten years, in 2024 he accepted a position as choirmaster for Saint Mary of the Immaculate Conception in Michigan, where he resides with his wife and children. —Read full biography (with photographs).
I have made some changes to my “musical list” for funerals.
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It’s ‘live’—so you can hear babies crying, the sound of the priest incensing the altar, and so forth.
Readers have expressed interest in perusing the “music list” I’ve prepared for this coming Sunday.
In my view, this one falls within the “Top Ten” list of Christmas carols.
“My most important vocation is not that of a musician but as a husband and a father to my four children.” —Richard J. Clark
Readers have expressed interest in perusing the “music list” I’ve prepared for this feast.
Rachmaninoff said: “Nine hours? That’s nothing. For a period of my life, I used to practice 17 hours a day.”
Father Mathias served as organist for Strasburg Cathedral, where he founded the “Saint Leo Institute for Church Music” in 1913.
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